iglak

i have a semi-photographic memory. i can remember pictures very easily, and i can remember the answers to yes or no questions very easily (and answer the multiple choice/yes or no questions easily). i have a hard time memorizing a list of words, but an easy time memorizing the emotions that each word represents. so i chose other for pictures/images and feelings/emotions. and i think underlying the pictures is emotions, since i can't remember details of pictures, just the big picture and the emotions (assuming there are emotions that are unnamed and not commonly known or understood), from which i can accurately guess the details.

wow! i wish i knew how to do that! upper back portion of brain you say? i'll try it. well, sorry, but i have no idea why it happens like that. i can concentrate on my entire upper brain and make it feel as though i am about to fall asleep, but i can't fall asleep like that. often times i wonder if this has something to do with pressure being put on my eyeballs as i am concentrating on that part. i noticed that when i concentrate on that part i subconsciously squeeze my eyeballs, and that it doesn't work if i try to not squeeze my eyebals. but this isn't the same as a vibration being sent throughout the body.

pain

lol, i meant if you have knowledge of something, but don't understand it, you will likely panic and harm others (mentally or physically), making your life a living hell. for example, drugs: they exist, we know it. one can become ignorant of them, being only blissfully aware. one can have knowledge of them, not understanding how they work, and not understanding why the adults are trying to control your lives by telling you they are bad. or one can have understanding of them, take them when you want in moderation and using them correctly, and not becoming addicted as easily because you know what to expect. okay, so pain was a poor choice of words, but it's better that what i first thought of, "hell" (and i would have put "heaven" in for enlightenment). that could have gotten people both mad and confused. at least this way i only get confusion... it's very hard for me to explain (i am not entirely good at explaining things anyway). if you have ever watched "Dragon Ball Z," then attempt to power up your hand so that you can shoot an energy ball. if you do "believe" (not think) this, then your hand will probably warm up by about 5 degrees (farenheit), which can be measured. i assume this is blood flowing there. actually, i don't know about the addrenalin part. because blood was flowing there, i thought the adrenalin (i know i am spelling this wrong...) would flow there too, but i suppose your brain could only recognize it flowing there and not see everywhere else... or something like that. <edit> for those of you who don't know: basically, Dragon Ball Z is an anime show about people that teach themselves martial arts and fighting skills and can fly, shoot energy balls, power up, and more, just by motivating themselves and (... can't think of a good word to use here) "channeling" their energy in specific ways (like to your hand to build an energy ball there which can then be thrown... or shot away). you really have to see it to understand how to do it (or maybe something similar, like some other anime shows).

ignorance = bliss knowledge = pain understanding = enlightenment i'm gonna make this my sig

keyword: motivation funny you should say that, i heard that sometimes people get accidentally amputated (mines, whatever) and are, in extreme circumstances, able to shut off most of the blood flow to that area. okay, one thing i noteced that works in ALL circumstances: pessimism and optimism are loosley defined, and that study shows nothing, except that. i've noticed that when i am playing a video game, specifically farming enemies in Final Fantasy XI to get items to sell, or even to get quest items, i often get the items faster than others. i am not particularily pessimistic or optimistic, it is all luck, but luck is a human skill that can be refined. in this game, there you can be a thief, and they learn a skill called "treasure hunter, " which supposedly drops more items. my friend got this class, and the skill, and started farming. he didn't get very many items. his problem was that he was relying on the skill, just as i assume those cancer patients are optimistic that the doctors will cure them. other people, when looking for certain quest items may take hours of killing the right enemies to get it. whereas i only take up to 15 minutes of killing the right enemies. i am not optimistic that it will drop, i am not pessimistic that it won't, i am simply not actually looking for the item. i look for the enemy, and then hope that it will drop the item, but until i am close to killing the enemy, i am only motivated in killing the enemy so that i might get the item. at that point i really want the item, so i channel my motivation into thinking that the item will drop. okay... so i am not quite explaining it very well. basically, motivation is key. don't hope that it will happen, hope that you will do it. sorry to quote "The Matrix," but... all you have to do is believe. DO NOT mix "believe" with "think" they are completely different. "believe" relates to your subconscious, while "think" relates to your conscious. if you think that the subconscious is uncontrollable, you are sadly mistaken. i suggest you learn to meditate. of course, this is no substitute for physical health. you know what? just take martial arts, then you get the best of both worlds, and a few more to boot. through martial arts you can become extremely healthy physically. and if you have a true martial artist for a teacher, he/she will also teach you: how to control your emotions. specifically fear, anger, and panic, all extremely useful if you want to "believe" that you can live longer, survive this dissease, or whatever. how to meditate. clear your mind of unwanted emotions, and think and focus on one (or more) thought(s). how to motivate yourself. use that unused anger to power your muscles by channeling blood and adrenalin to the needed areas (yes, this is possible) so that you can do things that you could not normally do. P.S. this is why i think the martial artists and budhists will be the last to win darwin awards, and the last to die in riots.

it'd be really interested to know how many people could read it. if it's done there sould be a poll that asks, on a scale of 1-10 how difficult it was to read relative to normal. and there should be the same thing for all other possible directions. but hey, I'M not going to make the website, because i don't really care that much, it would just be interesting to see the results. P.S. i voted 1 and 3

even visible light is a form of radiation...

door and acid is a genre of music btw

Kryptonite probably be KrO3, or possibly KrO2, and it probably would have no charge (although i think the only way for it to be called "-ite" is for it to have a negative charge of 1, 2, or 3... but i don't know how that would work since it's a noble gas)

this isn't a rumor though, it's a tabloid lie. this starts rumors, but it isn't one itself. any rumor based on this would have a tiny bit of truth, that this story was actually printed, but that's all the truth you could find from it.

yeah, it's happened to me before. but i don't really remember because i'm too tired to remember, and i just dismiss the memory as something not important. this has also happened when i am fighting my eyelids to keep them open. the rapid eyelid movements make things look shakey, but i don't think that's the only time. i have another eye related thing though. i keep meaning to post this but i always forget: about 1-2 years ago (i'm now 17, since January) i had a blind spot in my eyes. i was watching TV and i noticed that my eyes didn't see anything in this one area. this was very odd, so i looked at things to see if i could identify what my eyes can't see. it was a long triangle spiraling a tiny bit from the center of my eyes to the edge, and the blind spot was in both eyes, not just one. it was a significant blind spot too. my brain tried to fill in the blanks, but in cases where it couldn't i kinda saw colored static. and the wierdest thing is... this blind spot migrated all the way around my eyes (same on each eye). and while it migrated, the semi-spiral sort of twisted in other directions, or twisted more in one direction, but never changed shape from the basic triangle. here is my attempt at drawing it in ASCII (in one of the positions) O = visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OOOXX X = blind spot . . . . . . . . . . . . OOOOOOOOOXXXXO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OOOOOOOOOOXXXXXOOOOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OOOOOOOOXXXXOOOOOOOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OOOOOOOOOOOOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OOOOOO (assume that the oval is the full range of my vision, and the center is the center of my pupil) this also happened about a year before that. it went away in a few hours. does anyone have any idea what it is?

that right there is an argument for it not having infinite sides... but i vote that the dictionary needs to be revised!

ah, i see well, a line could be said to have infinite points, and a plane could be said to have infinite lines (and thus infinite points too). a sphere shaped plane could be said to have those too (since it's just a plane). it is entirely appropriate to count each point as a vertex. since each point is infinitely close to the next point, each side is only one point, and thus not 3 or more lines closing off a plane. also, saying there are zero sides doesn't make sense in my mind, that would indicate that it doesn't exist (i mean i can understand saying zero, i just thing infinite is more accurate).

after i read your first post, i agreed that it <edit> isn't one... i'm still confused...

i'm missing something here... (i don't understand what you mean)

that's a good idea actually. to make something 0 K, all atomic and subatomic movement needs to stop (all electrons, quarks, whatever else there is). and from the attractive forces between every subatomic molecule, concievably they would "fall" into eachother. but then that's just my somewhat uneducated speculation.

but, the only way for infinite sides to fit in a finite space is to have each side infinitely small, and unable to close off a plane.

or shperes have infinite verticies, therefore infinite. but i agree with the "not one" part of this. one side came from inside and outside. these are not actual sides, they only refer to the placement of an object in relation to another object.

either. infinite sides would mean that it has a perfect curve. one perfectly curved side is the exact same thing as infinite sides.

my AP Bio teacher said differently, but i agree with you on that (although i believe the underlying personality is genetic)

i have no problems with cloning, as long as it's used to farm, or make lab animals. and i suppose bringing back to life a newborn bayby that only died from an accident or something... or for that matter creating a new baby if one is incapable of normally creating one.... ANYWAY, i have no problem with cloning for the sole purpose of farming organs or anything like that. it doesn't present ethical issues in my mind because we would be breeding them to die, and we already do that with beef and pork and things. humans is just the next step, and i don't care. the argument "What if it were you?" doesn't really apply. if we treated them like we treat me, or other humans now, then we wouldn't be breeding them to die, we would be breeding them under the false impression that they will live, and THAT is unethical. if we keep them in a coma or something their entire life, and just put the needed nutrients directly into their blood, then it's just a plant waiting to be picked, or a cow waiting to be slaughtered. P.S. we need a devil face smiley...

i think hic means redneck

observation of the fact that light goes c relative to all rest frames. then they thought of Special relativity to fit it. and c being the maximum speed is a result of special relativity (i think).

actually, Demosthenes was the name peter came up with for his sister to use. Peter himself used Locke. (i have no idea if you know that or not, but i'm just pointing it out)